GIMP 10th Anniversary Splash Contest Winner Announced 253
ghost_crab writes "Following up on this story, the winner for the 10th Anniversary GIMP Splash Contest has been announced. Concurrently, a birthday edition has been released to the mirrors. Many happy returns, Wilbur!"
That's not exactly a great design... (Score:2, Informative)
gimp --no-splash (Score:1, Informative)
caches... (Score:5, Informative)
http://sven.gimp.org.nyud.net:8090/gimp-2.2.10-sp
and to the full page:
http://www.gimp.org.nyud.net:8090/contest/ [nyud.net]
i also put the image to here:
http://www.artichost.net/gimp-2.2.10-splash-conte
Re:Can you say bloat? (Score:2, Informative)
nitpick (Score:1, Informative)
Re:For their next contest... (Score:5, Informative)
It's "for all intents and purposes."
Re:For their next contest... (Score:5, Informative)
Except for the dynamic brushes, 32-bit HDR support, RAW support, vanishing point, layer effects, selectable type antialiasing, nested layer groups, adjustment layers, decent noise removal, filters that don't take years to run (try Gaussian Blur in the GIMP)... The list goes on. The GIMP guys are so busy trying to optimize and fix bugs that they never add any features. Check out Photoshop's Vanishing Point tool [digitalmediadesigner.com]. When's the last something you've seen something cool like that put into the GIMP? Oh that's right, never. The creative software field requires innovation and basic technical skill to make it all come together nicely. That's what Adobe has in its developers, and why Photoshop runs circles around the GIMP performance and feature wise. The GIMP team just can't compete.
Re:This bodes ill... (Score:2, Informative)
Also, the text across the top is badly kerned. (Kerning is the space between letters. See how the T and H 'THE' are almost touching but there's a ton of space between the H and E in the same word? And there's different spacing around the periods in '2.2.10.') That's most likely due to it being a low-quality font, but in any case, it doesn't take much effort to hand-kern the letters in a logo. I wouldn't want to hand-kern a page of text, but for a 13-character logo it's easy and absolutely essential.
And for a graphic that is destined to be seen on a screen, the GIMP logo on the gauge face is badly anti-aliased, but I don't have the GIMP handy to be able to tell if it's operator error or if that's just how the GIMP antialiases things.
Re:Eeeeuuuuh! (Score:3, Informative)
No!
To be grammatically correct, that statement means "the GIMP Logo animates *me* {or something else}".
The VERB to "animate"
I animate
You animate
He animates
She animates
We animate
They animate
The correct usage would be "the GIMP logo IS ANIMATED".
Fucking illiterates!
Re:Dynamic Splash (Score:3, Informative)
Offtopic grammar (Score:1, Informative)
What are intensive purposes? You mean intents and purposes.